[patch]: Make sure that $ characters are prefixed by backslash

Andreas Schwab schwab@suse.de
Mon Jan 5 12:36:00 GMT 2009


Alan Modra <amodra@bigpond.net.au> writes:

> That's right.  Backslash itself also ought to be quoted.  Bash seems
> to be quite forgiving.

That's standard behaviour.  Inside here documents the backslash is only
special if followed by a special character ($ ` \ newline).

Andreas.

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